Applications
- 3.4.1 Soil Moisture Monitoring — Measuring volumetric water content across agricultural soils at field scale using satellite L-band microwave radiometry and radar backscatter, updated multiple times per week.
- 3.4.2 Water Stress Monitoring — Detecting crop and soil water stress across agricultural landscapes by fusing thermal infrared, multispectral and microwave satellite data into actionable irrigation triggers.
- 3.4.3 Irrigation Automation — Closing the loop between satellite-derived crop water demand and field-level irrigation hardware, so water is applied at the right rate, in the right place, at the right time.
- 3.4.4 Watershed Intelligence — Mapping snowpack, glacier retreat, runoff generation and catchment storage across entire river basins using multi-sensor satellite observations to govern water allocation before it reaches the field.
- 3.4.5 Agricultural Water Forecasting — Combining satellite-derived soil moisture, evapotranspiration and precipitation estimates with numerical weather models to forecast agricultural water demand and supply at field scale.